As someone who strives to support our athletic programs and will one day have children participating in them, I feel compelled to seek help. We must raise a standard for how we treat our coaches or we risk losing dedicated individuals willing to step up and lead. Last week, Coach Leco resigned due to mistreatment from athletes, parents, and a lack of administrative support. Much of this stem from poor communication, a lesson many of us, myself included, need to continually learn. Misunderstandings are taken out of context and escalated unnecessarily, tarnishing someone's reputation. This pattern, miscommunication, mishandling of situations must end. It's not an isolated incident. Other coaches have faced similar treatment in recent years. As a volunteer fundraiser for these athletes through an outside organization, I confess that my motivation to contribute wains when I hear of such incidents. The entitlement and lack of respect towards our leaders must be addressed and held accountable.
Any questions on that one? No. Perfect. I move to approve the minutes from the March 26, 2025 special meeting as presented. I second that motion. Okay. All in favor? I I motion carries. Five to zero. Okay. So, we're going to um we're down to 5.1. Superintendent report celebrations and recognition. Thank you, Madam President. a lot of things going on right now. So, we'll uh there is a handout out front, so I'm not going to read every single word, but we want to congratulate uh the high school FFA for their Panal County Fair success. Um they were recently at the at the uh Panal County Fair. Uh there's a whole list of winners. Uh we do want to take a moment to thank the not only the students but also their teacher, Mr. Van Vanosichi, Vanessich. And then the list of the top winners were James Morgan, market champion, Durac, Kyle Rednau, market champion and fourth in showmanship, and Bailey Bonner, Carcass Goat Reserve Champion and uh sports showmanship champion intermediate.
Um, but, uh, they, uh, they did, uh, did really, really well. Um, we got to see last night there was a combined uh Winter Guard um at Desert Sunrise where MHS and Desert Sunrise both performed their performances. Um, so that was kind of fun to see. It was I think only the second or third time that I'd seen uh MHS. Um, and both both just had a incredible um progression from the beginning of the year to uh to where they're at now. Uh let's see here. Tomorrow night uh I will be at the Desert Sunrise Eco Audit proposal showcase um hosted uh it's uh it's a serious uh lesson in science uh math and English. So, um, having a daughter that went through the blended program or both daughters actually, um, really set them up for this, uh, for this project where they're actually presenting to a business to get funded to make a difference in, um, uh, in ecology and the way that the school operates and that kind of thing.
Some statistics we have 7,641 islands which were which are divided into three main regions. The Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Miss Chesca here is from Visayas. I am from Luzon. And we have Filipino and English as our official languages, but we have 130 to 195 um dialects and languages. Filipinos also like to celebrate um festivals all over the country. We have here Sinulog. Synulog is considered the first and the biggest festival in the Philippines which you guys will see later. It is a celebration of Cebu of celebration in Cebu City held every third Sunday of January to honor Santon the child Jesus. And we also have Pahas festival celebrating bountiful harvest and giving thanks to San Isid Labador the patron saint of farmers. Of course, Filipinos are are known to celebrate the world's longest Christmas celebration. We begin putting up our trees in September and then we put them down in January.
We'll wait a minute for everybody to leave because that was the high point of the night, everyone. Yeah. No. Yeah. What do you want to go first? Okay, you want to go first? Okay. I just Well, I was going to wait to get hooked up, but I'll go ahead and get Okay. Next up is public participation. There was nobody signed up tonight, but is there anybody that needs to speak? Okay. Hearing no one. Uh, next up we have open forum. Uh, first up will be the board. Um, there were five foyer requests this month. Foyer requests can be found on board docs. Uh, first up tonight for comment, Mrs. Hartman. Anything tonight? I do not have anything tonight, but I hope everyone has a happy and fun safe and fun spring break. Thank you, Mr. Janzi. Just a couple Whoa. Sorry about that. Just a couple things.
Hearing none. Thank you. Uh-huh. Uh, next up we have community input. There is no one signed up, so I won't even read this paragraphs. Uh, next up we have the approval of previous meeting minutes. The approval of minutes from February 24th, 2025 meeting. Does any committee member have any changes to the minutes as presented?
So I'd like to introduce our seventh grade students here who's Audrey Podic. Audrey, come on up. in the seventh grade curriculum. Um, actually, I'm gonna let Audrey tell you a little bit about our seventh grade curriculum. Hello, I'm Audrey Paddock. I'm in seventh grade. This year in win, we learned about public speaking and finding career paths. I think this is a very engaging and useful topic that everyone needs to know in the future. Um, what makes this topic so special is that no other class in Kerry Junior High teaches about this. Um, while doing a project in which you're finding a career path, many kids found jobs that they were interested in. For me, it was a patent lawyer. Not only did we learn about the job itself, we also learned about finding the job and gathering information into slides. Along with the project we had to present this strengthens public speaking skills and many kids got out of their comfort zones.
So you know, all you have to do when you get to that menu is just look for the date. Okay. Huh? Uh save them again. Okay. Um, you're done. Okay. Hold on. Just Oh, it's not published. Um, okay. But no, this is going to go. It's not going to go. It could. It could, but nobody's going to know. People can't even delete it. They don't website yet. It's not like on the website. Will it go to the board? Yeah. Uncheck. Okay. Okay. That's just like the cookie cutter agenda or maybe one that you guys already answered. That does take a while. Yeah, it published. I publish on Thursday and then I'll publish probably that morning or whatever. I I I'll publish. Okay. I have to So I I publish it I have to legally publish it on somewhere. Yes. For the public. on Thursday. If there are changes, then I would publish it.
So, uh, I was thinking about how I wanted to introduce these two and, um, like I can tell you that Juliana's eighth as a junior. She's eighth all time in our scoring list and she's third all time in our steals list and she's second all time in our three-pointers and Miley has 499 points. But that tells you that they're a good basketball player. Um, which is something that we already know. Um they're both ICGSA recognized Indiana coaches girls sports. Juliana's first team, Miley second team. Um Juliana was your basketball coaches association district three um underassman all district. Um and she was also IBCA um all state. Honorable mention is she was just a a hair away from being large school all state um which is a pretty big deal. Uh, but I like I I could go through all that, but like I wanted to when I introduced them, I wanted to I wanted you to know what kind of people they were.
I'm gonna introduce um their teacher, Miss Mary Nameoth, to tell you a little bit about their performance. Hello everyone. My name is Mary Nameoth. I am the director at the high school. Uh so we sang three pieces at Micah this weekend and we had to sing an ac cappella piece, a piece in a world language and a second piece or a third piece and we're going to sing our ac capella piece. It is called connected. Um and it is going to be our one song that is going to bridge into our spring concert and the theme is elevating LGBTQ plus voices. Um and that is on May 15 at 7 pm. Um all right, shall we do it? Great. [Music] Can you ar That's what I [Music] I don't seems like I'm over here and you're over there seems like I'm over here and you're over [Music] [Applause] [Music] thereusion and you seems Take the confusion.
I'm in third I am a third grade student at Four Corners Elementary School. I have known Mrs. Patnode since I started kindergarten. She always had has a smile and a hug. As our superintendent, she always she knows what the students of Greenfield need. She has a vision for Greenfield public schools and should be a part of designing our future. Please support her in her work. Thank you. [Applause] Hi, Margaret Rancor Greenfield. I'm here as a fourth grade teacher from Four Corners and I thought I was just going to talk about a real asset we have in our fourth graders. And I was going to talk about my 26 fourth graders that are amazing human beings. They're hardworking. They're resilient. They're compassionate. And they had to have a lot to deal with this year. They went from being in a class of 16 to a class of 26.
Hopefully by the May meeting, we'll have positions filled and their terms will take place starting July 1st. Uh looking forward, we have going in May. Uh the our annual plant sale will be happening on May 5th and 6th. I'm sorry, May 6th and seventh, excuse me. This is a chance for students to purchase plants uh for in time for Mother's Day. Um but they can be purchase plants for anybody special in their eyes. Doesn't have to be mom, grandma, can be dad, can be anybody. Uh we'll have a wide variety of vegetable plants and uh flowering plants as well as um patio plants patio plants that will be available for purchase uh pre- purchase. Um we will take cash check on the day of the sale and now we are going to offer a way to um the parents to preload almost like our um ewallets.
In addition to applying himself academically, Ethan is a gifted musician and is part of the jazz band. Moreover, he is also a talented runner who was able to earn the most improved runner award by shaving off almost a minute and a half from his running score. That's impressive. Equally as impressive, as a hardworking member of the BCS robotics team, his and the rest of the team's efforts earned them a spot at the World Championship in Texas next month. Clearly, when Ethan sets his mind to something, he follows his commitments and is able to achieve remarkable feats. We cannot wait to see what the future holds for such a talented young man. Congratulations. And we'll get your certificate to you as well. Okay. The next one goes to Bolton High School, Aninsley Haran. Okay. Aninsley is an intelligent, highly motivated and altruistic student with unlimited potential.
But we see that it is hard for many honors classes and honor students to excel in this new academy. We see that it they do not offer many AP classes with placement which they cannot who make the college credit that are they being told the new academy program does not allow them to register. An example of this I am personally facing is that I cannot take AP advanced basic government politics because I have a half a year at gym left because of the expiration seminar. I find this struggling because I cannot excel my learning and I can't bring up my GPA. Another concern is that how the essentials class that we have to take it's mandatory is only a CP class and this is also weighing down my GPA and it's worrying me for how I can excel in top schools. Similarly, all music classes are currently unavailable at the new campus, which is a huge loss for students who want to embrace in that creativity and want to perform in those types of specialties.
Um so that's a dam nor uh comparison. You can see just you know one you can only look down the right hand column to see that they have more with the next th this one's not as clear on the screen, but what stood out to me here, the reason I included this, South Street School is a is a blue ribbon school proiding a school distinction. And when I look here, um you have a Norwalk School that has 10 10 instructional specialists at that school where South Street has in this year too. I think the work that's done in Danbury because of the team here because of the school leadership teams and and the district cabinet team and everyone else involved especially the teachers who um you know just are a heroic effort to get get the results that they do with such you know limited um in terms of staffing capacity.
[Music] Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Excellent job. I wish we had more students that were part of the color. Okay. Uh we are on item number four, the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? I'll move approval of the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Discussion on these items. No discussion. Okay. And call vote, please. I I I I I unanimous. Item five, hearing a person's wishing to address the board. I do not have any slips showing anyone who wants to present comments. Oh, we do have one gentleman here. Thank you.
Um, first for student uh for item 2B, student discipline, we will need a motion from a board member to um expel student number 71634539 and have that expulsion be suspended under the conditions stipulated. Thank you very much. Could I have a motion, please? So moved. Second that. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. opposed. Motion passes. Thank you, Dr. Fuentes. We have one additional item. For item 2D, on a vote of 4 to 0, the board took action in close session to release and reassign two certificated administrators. Thank you. Thank you. We shall continue. Item six, um, recognition and ceremonial. There's nothing there for us. Number Item seven, what? Sorry, we need to adopt the agenda. I'm sorry. Need to adopt the agenda. Section E. Oh, I'm sorry. I was I just went through it. Sorry. All right. The adoption of the agenda.
I'm calling on athletic director Jose or whoever assumes a role for next year to set a higher standard for our student athletes. We need clear expectations for how volunteers and coaches should be treated with consequences such as suspension from play when those standards are not met. Let's elevate what it means to be a Red Raider athlete. Our cheerleading team exemplifies unity and respect for their coaches thriving because these values are embedded in our culture. We can learn from them. From an outsers's perspective, I know the time and energy coaches invest in their teams. It's disheartening to see athletes and parents disrespect those who give so much. This behavior is driving good people away from our community. I urge you, take your concerns directly to the coaches first. Most issues are likely misunderstandings that can be resolved through dialogue. I believe coach David has good intentions and wants to help his athletes grow.
So they had great success there. Uh also a reminder, we do have the Combmes Education Foundation scholarship. Some of you sitting in there, that might be seniors. You might want to check and see if you haven't filled any out. Anybody I know in fine arts, there's a scholarship out there. Um there are variety of different scholarships, about 18 $1,000 scholarships. They'll be awarded at the May uh six senior awards night. So those are out. Um CHS soccer, boys soccer in particular, had a a very successful season, the best in in the uh in the school's history. And we want to congratulate Nathan Alvarez, who was named the region offensive player of the year and under spot on the all region team. He was also on the or joined on the first all region first team by Evan Frasier a defender. Uh Logan Pluganfelder a forward Ramis Garcia the goalie and Andres Martinez a midfielder.
from a from a science standpoint. Um, so I'll be there tomorrow night. Um, and then as we get to the end of the year, there's always lots of celebrations, uh, competitions, that kind of thing. I know that, uh, there's state math competitions, national competitions, that kind of thing, uh, coming up. So, good luck to, uh, to all those kids as well. That's all I have. Thank you. Member Lopez. I don't have anything to report. Thank you, Vice President Coutree. Thank you, President Downey. Um, so I was able to attend the greenhouse opening at Desert Sunrise and uh it was so impressive that greenhouse is probably better than some of the professional ones that I've even seen at like UFA Egg Center. Um, it's amazing. Um, but I am waiting for another update on my seeds. I want to know how big my plants are now.